printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 198: Directed Readings in Public Policy
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Abrams, W. (PI)
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Cogan, J. (PI)
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Darling-Hammond, L. (PI)
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Abrams, W. (PI)
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Cogan, J. (PI)
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Darling-Hammond, L. (PI)
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Jamieson, A. (PI)
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Nation, J. (PI)
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Petersilia, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 199: Senior Research
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Kochar, A. (PI)
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Krasner, S. (PI)
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Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Kochar, A. (PI)
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Krasner, S. (PI)
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Rothwell, G. (PI)
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Shoven, J. (PI)
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So, S. (PI)
PUBLPOL 200A: Senior Seminar
Students conduct original research for oral presentations and a paper on a policy-related topic. Topic and methods of analysis determined by student in consultation with instructor. Goal is to improve analytical, research, writing, and communication skills. Prerequisites: core courses in Public Policy or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Goda, G. (PI)
PUBLPOL 200B: Senior Seminar: Conducting Policy Analysis for Local Agencies
Students conduct original research for oral presentations and a paper on a policy-related topic. Topic and methods of analysis determined by student in consultation with instructor. Goal is to improve analytical, research, writing, and communication skills. Prerequisites: core courses in Public Policy or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Sprague, M. (PI)
PUBLPOL 200C: Senior Seminar
Students conduct original research for oral presentations and a paper on a policy-related topic. Topic and methods of analysis determined by student in consultation with instructor. Goal is to improve analytical, research, writing, and communication skills. Prerequisites: core courses in Public Policy or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Sprague, M. (PI)
PUBLPOL 201: Politics and Public Policy (POLISCI 123, PUBLPOL 101)
How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria. Prerequisite:
POLISCI 2 (or equivalent for Public Policy majors).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Frisby, T. (PI)
PUBLPOL 202: Organizations and Public Policy (PUBLPOL 102)
Analysis of organizational processes emphasizing organizations that operate in a non-market environment. Prerequisite:
ECON 1A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Bendor, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 204: Economic Policy Analysis (ECON 150, PUBLPOL 104)
The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions, methods of policy evaluation and the role of benefit-cost analysis, economic models of politics and their application to policy making, and the relationship of income distribution to policy choice. Theoretical foundations of policy making and analysis, and applications to program adoption and implementation. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
PUBLPOL 206: Economics of Legal Rules and Institutions (ECON 154, PUBLPOL 106)
Design and consequences of laws, given alternative policy objectives. Welfarist approach to legal policy; deontological perspectives including Kant, Locke, Mill, and Rawls. Economic efficiency and agent rationality, law as mitigation of market and cognitive failures, effects of law on expectations and incentives, balancing costs of type I and type II legal errors. Empirical studies of law's effects. Applications: property, tort, contract, antitrust, discrimination, crime, legal procedure. Examples chiefly from U.S. law, but analytical tools of general applicability. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Owen, B. (PI)
PUBLPOL 231: Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy (HRP 391)
(SAME AS
LAW 348) Provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the U.S. Potential topics include: health reform, health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance, the uninsured), medical malpractice and quality regulation, pharmaceuticals, the corporate practice of medicine, regulation of fraud and abuse, and international comparisons.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Kessler, D. (PI)
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